Fix potential crash. Passing an empty string happens _very_ often.

[features.git] / src / frontends / qt4 / GuiFontMetrics.C

diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
index 0a1138bfb563de3402f7c3b856868a610cbd67b3..d1ed0ecea854108bd61b293bb2edbd171b7ce40b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiFontMetrics.C
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ int GuiFontMetrics::width(QString const & ucs2) const
 
 int GuiFontMetrics::signedWidth(docstring const & s) const
 {
+       if (s.empty())
+               return 0;
+
        if (s[0] == '-')
                return -width(&(s[1]), s.length() - 1);
        else